RISK VS. REWARD | Should You Draft or Pass on These 12 High-Upside Sleepers? (Ep. 1568)
FantasyPros - Fantasy Football Podcast
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4.8 • 10.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Are you ready to risk it for the biscuit? Join Chris Welsh, Andrew Erickson and guest LaQuan Jones (@RealDealFantasy) of NFL Media for their game of draft or pass on these high-upside fantasy football sleepers!
Can New York Jets QB Justin Fields run his way back into the QB1 conversation? Is this the beginning of the end for Jacksonville RBs Travis Etienne and Tank Bigsby? Plus, does Buffalo Bills WR Keon Coleman have a year-two breakout within the cards?
The Pros talk risk vs. reward!
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Introduction - 0:00:00
Justin Fields (QB - NYJ) - 0:01:26
Anthony Richardson (QB - IND) - 0:05:03
DraftKings Ad Read - 0:12:10
Travis Etienne (RB - JAX) & Tank Bigsby (RB - JAX) - 0:13:49
Cam Skattebo (RB - NYG) - 0:18:41
FantasyPros Draft Simulator Ad Read - 0:24:47
Jordan Mason (RB - MIN) - 0:25:20
Braelon Allen (RB - NYJ) - 0:29:55
FantasyPros Twitch Ad Read - 0:35:06
Josh Downs (WR - IND) - 0:36:03
Keon Coleman (WR - BUF) - 0:40:39
Jalen McMillan (WR - TB) - 0:44:57
Jayden Higgins (WR - HOU) - 0:48:37
Evan Engram (TE - DEN) - 0:53:11
Jake Ferguson (TE - DAL) - 0:57:08
Outro - 0:59:50
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:06.1 | What's up, friends, and welcome in to Fantasy Pros in NFL. |
| 0:10.0 | It is the Fantasy Football Podcast. |
| 0:12.5 | I am Chris Welsh, and I've got a great show for you today. |
| 0:15.3 | We are talking about 12 high-upside sleepers, draft or pass. |
| 0:20.3 | We are going to figure out which side these guys are taking |
| 0:23.8 | and where you should go and these fine gentlemen joining me today i have the one and only |
| 0:27.5 | andrew ericsson the undertaker my in-season partner pretty much we're like on a bunch of shows |
| 0:33.1 | together and the first time i've gotten to spend some time. Lake Juan Jones from NFL Network. |
| 0:38.0 | Lake Juan, great to have you on the show, my friend. How are you? Absolutely, man. Look, it's early |
| 0:42.2 | over here, but I've been up for a while, but I'm ready to talk some ball, man. Yeah, and not first time |
| 0:47.0 | on fantasy pros, just first time you and I. Amazing, amazing, too. Yeah, and amazing too, like the circles of like what I've done with Joey P forever that you and I have never really crossed paths. |
| 0:55.6 | So it's good to have you on. |
| 0:57.3 | Erickson, are you ready to draft or pass some of these players? |
| 1:01.5 | 100%. |
| 1:02.1 | I'm excited about some of these names that you put on this list. |
| 1:04.6 | I know it was a collaborative effort. |
| 1:06.3 | John was putting some names in. You were putting some names and we were going back last night trying to figure out which upside sleepers do we need to make sure that we hit on for today's show. So very excited, |
| 1:15.5 | especially with our special guest on. That's right. It's going to be amazing. And just so you guys |
| 1:19.4 | know, any of the names that are stinky and you don't like, that was our boss who put that on. Any |
| 1:24.5 | of the great names and great debates here clearly was me that put that |
| 1:28.4 | together. So just making that clear so everybody knows. All right, let's jump into it. We're going to |
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